mole prices

[bouncer 51]

thanks again fellas.

[trapperman 474]

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It is a stange question that keeps gettin asked on here, if you cant look at a job, work out how many moles you expect, work out your costs in time insurance and fuel then work out a price maybe you shouldnt be offering a professional service.

didn;t say i was offering a service.(theres always one)

 

£10 mate

If you say an average job is 3 visits, i`m talking domestic jobs here, and you get 1 mole on the job thats £3.33 per visit .

 

name one other trade, and thats what it is if its part of your living a trade, where a tradesman charges £3/visit, it wouldnt even cover my diesel.

 

 

Milk man

O.k smart ass lol

[Moll. 1,770]

We have just started off local. First job is a graveyard in a rural village. I am doing it for no initial charge and £5 per mole (the going rate here)...just because it is an old lady who asked, not much money in the church funds etc etc. So far we have covered 73 miles for £10

 

Next job is at the castle on my lamping/bushing land, again no charge but £5 per mole. I visit this place at least weekly it is really close to my home for rabbiting so no problem with fuel costs.

 

My reason for doing this... word of mouth, the church yard was on the recommendation from the lady at the castle, most of my rabbiting has been the same.

People in these rural places all know everyone, and talk to everyone. Sometimes you need to speculate to accumulate, word of mouth/references will get you more work in the long run imo.

I will charge a call out fee to anyone else, fee depending upon circumstances.

[swanseajack 227]

Phone up your local molecatcher, as a paying customer and ask them !! They will tell you!

 

Where I am and where I was it's £10.00 a mole, I know of someone charging £10.00 a mole and someone on his doorstep is advertising £5.00 a mole and £50.00 a garden, there's an ad on here for from £50 a garden, possibly three vists 20 mile round trip each time, and your time for £50.00 and you might not even catch it..

 

some are charging £50 a mole for the first one plus petrol/mileage..

 

if the local rate is X amount and the paying customers are actually paying that, I cannot for the life of me see why anyone would want to go in and undercut the price, do the same work for the same price, get your own customers and build on that.. apparently there's 33 million of the lil black beauties in the country!!

 

back home, it's £10 a mole I know that someone recently has gone in and charging £7.50 a mole, the one's that are charging £10 a mole have still got the work, so the £7.50 mole catcher is actually doing himself out of money...

 

If you open a chippy on the same street as another chippy and they do bags of chips for £1.50 and do a roaring trade, would you do them for a £1.00 a bag or make damm sure you do better chips and slightly larger portions for £1.50 ?? tis all about service !!

[miller 18]

Not this topic again

[DIDO.1 22,838]

Iv just had 53 moles in one day setting and a couple of hours picking up, £10 a mole my farmers would laugh their heads off! Each to their own, charge what you can get away with.

[swanseajack 227]

Iv just had 53 moles in one day setting and a couple of hours picking up, £10 a mole my farmers would laugh their heads off! Each to their own, charge what you can get away with.

How often do you get that number, what's your average per week ??

[DIDO.1 22,838]

Iv just had 53 moles in one day setting and a couple of hours picking up, £10 a mole my farmers would laugh their heads off! Each to their own, charge what you can get away with.

How often do you get that number, what's your average per week ??

 

To be fair that was a good do, I couldnt seem to keep them out of my traps that day, they were going off as I was setting them. I tend to only do one big farm a week and have most of them done now so I can concentrate on domestics as spring comes. Id say between 50 and 100 a week when doing the farms but I do have alot of moorland edge farms.

[Waz 4,262]

I reckon a few years back I may have asked the same question... havent we all?

 

The answer, you can only find with time and experience of dealing with clients.

 

Before I went full-time pest control I was doing some work for a lady who was a bit of a marketing guru, She offered me lots of general advice about business in general, butthe biggest and best piece of advice that she gave me was that if I was getting 10 out of 10 jobs quoted for then I am too cheap.

 

This principal ive always born in mind with seasonal work from previous years.

Hence I now charge more than double for certain 'seasonal' pests than I was 2 years ago. I may loose (for example) 1 or 2 out of 10 telephone quote enquires but read the previous sentence and do the maths.

 

Me exception to the rule is existing clients and ones that are right on my doorstep. Although if existing clients get uneconomical to do, then I will try and squeeze them gently with a full explanation, most will understand, the ones that dont.........

 

Also with mole control if ever you get an enquiry from a business,, maybe sort out the initial cull as a job, then get in there and see if they are interested in an annual contract to control the moles. Nice to have the contracts

Edited March 27, 2011 by GD Waz

[HUnter_zero 58]

£50 for the first mole which also inc. the time of setting up.

£10 per mole after that.

 

John

[moxy 617]

I find it beyond belief that folk will pay a tenner a mole, regardless of a trap setting fee. I am in no way disputing some of the mole charge claims, each to his own and that but a tenner a mole plus trap setting fee

 

There must be some very rich molecatchers out there!!

 

There is no way on this earth any farmer i work for would pay that! You would be well on your way and the next moleman lining up for the work would be laughing.

 

I can do well in excess of a hundred moles a week during my busy period and weather permitting. I would love to think i was drawing over a grand a week. Catch moles for six months of the year and enjoy the rest of the year on my 60ft yacht sailing the bahamas, whatever!

 

My rates suit me and i keep my important agric customers every year, domestics come and go and yes most wont see change from fifty notes for a mole on a lawn, but you have to keep it real!

 

It seems everybody wants to be a molecatcher but its far from romantic and it certainly isnt no get rich quick scheme.

If you dont keep your rates realistic, competatiive or whatever you want to call it, the next man will be in before your back is turned, there seems to be no layalty where money is concerned.

 

Now if you dont mind i have my rates to revise and a boat to buy

Happy and prosperous trapping

[goshawking719 492]

£25 an hour from the moment I leave the door to the moment I land back- start charging by the mole and before long you will end up with the customer/farmer etc checking your traps to save themselves a few quid- unfortunately I speak for experience of this

[morton 5,368]

I find it beyond belief that folk will pay a tenner a mole, regardless of a trap setting fee. I am in no way disputing some of the mole charge claims, each to his own and that but a tenner a mole plus trap setting fee

 

There must be some very rich molecatchers out there!!

 

There is no way on this earth any farmer i work for would pay that! You would be well on your way and the next moleman lining up for the work would be laughing.

 

I can do well in excess of a hundred moles a week during my busy period and weather permitting. I would love to think i was drawing over a grand a week. Catch moles for six months of the year and enjoy the rest of the year on my 60ft yacht sailing the bahamas, whatever!

 

My rates suit me and i keep my important agric customers every year, domestics come and go and yes most wont see change from fifty notes for a mole on a lawn, but you have to keep it real!

 

It seems everybody wants to be a molecatcher but its far from romantic and it certainly isnt no get rich quick scheme.

If you dont keep your rates realistic, competatiive or whatever you want to call it, the next man will be in before your back is turned, there seems to be no layalty where money is concerned.

 

Now if you dont mind i have my rates to revise and a boat to buy

Happy and prosperous trapping

I thought it was just me that had trouble with wallet shy farmers moxy,we must be in the wrong part of the country.

[Tomm Parr 30]

I didn't realise how many mole catchers were out there

[moxy 617]

I didn't realise how many mole catchers were out there

 

Everybody is a molecatcher! Its just that some have a little trouble working out what to charge.

Myself and morton included Seems we are selling ourselves short